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Weyl semimetals exhibit exotic Fermi-arc surface states, which strongly affect their electromagnetic properties. We derive analytical expressions for all components of the composite density-spin response tensor for the surfaces states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Sayandip Ghosh , Carsten Timm

Fermi arc surface states, the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in Weyl semimetals, have attracted much research interest. In contrast to the conventional Fermi loop, the disconnected Fermi arcs provide an exotic 2D system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Xi-Rong Chen , Guangze Chen , Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

We study Rudermann-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene nanoribbons in the presence of spin orbit interactions and magnetic fields. For this we evaluate the static spin susceptibility tensor in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Carrier-mediated exchange coupling, known as Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, plays a fundamental role in itinerant ferromagnetism and has great application potentials in spintronics. A recent theorem based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 J. E. Bunder , Hsiu-Hau Lin

Noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetals provide a platform for investigating the interplay among magnetism, inversion symmetry breaking, and topologically nontrivial Weyl fermions. The Weyl-mediated Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Mengyao Zhou , Hao-Ran Chang , Lijun Yang , Long Liang

By means of density functional theory based calculations, we study the role of spin-orbit coupling in the new family of ABC hyperferroelectrics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 127601 (2014)]. We unveil an extremely rich physics strongly linked to…

Motivated by the recent upsurge in research of three-dimensional topological semimetals (SMs), we theoretically study the RKKY interaction between magnetic impurities in node-line SMs with and without the chirality and obtain the analytical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-22 Zhong-Yi Wang , Da-Yong Liu , Liang-Jian Zou

In order to study the interplay between Kondo and Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, we calculate the spin-spin correlation functions between two Kondo impurities coupled to different sites of a half-filled open Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-28 A. C. Tiegel , P. E. Dargel , K. A. Hallberg , H. Frahm , T. Pruschke

The electron-nuclear hyperfine interaction shows up in a variety of phenomena including e.g. NMR studies of correlated states and spin decoherence effects in quantum dots. Here we focus on the hyperfine coupling and the NMR spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Zoltán Okvátovity , Ferenc Simon , Balázs Dóra

We consider the electromagnetic response of a topological Weyl semimetal (TWS) with a pair of Weyl nodes in the bulk and corresponding Fermi arcs in the surface Brillouin zone. We compute the frequency-dependent complex conductivities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-20 Mehdi Kargarian , Mohit Randeria , Nandini Trivedi

We investigate the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction arising from the hyperfine coupling between localized nuclear spins and conduction electrons in interacting $^{13}$C carbon nanotubes. Using the Luttinger liquid formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We present a systematic study of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ films under both dark and illuminated conditions. In the dark, the intrinsic magnetism of MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ is shown to yield a stronger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Ya-Xi Li , Zi-Jian Chen , Rui-Qiang Wang , Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan

We study the RKKY interaction of magnetic impurities in the $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ model which hosts pseudospin-1 fermions with two dispersive and one flat bands. By using the effective low-energy Hamiltonian we calculate the RKKY coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 D. O. Oriekhov , V. P. Gusynin

The oscillating magnetic interlayer coupling of Fe over spacer layers consisting of Cu$_{x}$Pd$_{1-x}$ alloys is investigated by first principles density functional theory. The amplitude, period and phase of the coupling, as well as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Erik Holmström , Anders Bergman , Lars Nordström , S. B. Dugdale , I. Abrikosov , B. L. Györffy

The spin of a single atom adsorbed on a substrate is a promising building block for future spintronics and quantum computation schemes. To process spin information and also for increased magnetic stability, these building blocks have to be…

We investigate the long-range behavior and size dependence of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in hexagonal and triangular graphene nanoflakes with zigzag and arm-chair edges. We employ the tight-binding model with exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Ahmet Utku Canbolat , Ozgur Cakir

We propose that real-space properties of the two-impurity Kondo model can be obtained from an effective spin model where two single-impurity Kondo spin chains are joined via an RKKY interaction between the two impurity spins. We then use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-10 Abolfazl Bayat , Sougato Bose , Pasquale Sodano , Henrik Johannesson

We theoretically study the Kondo screening of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity in the bulk of a type-II Weyl semimetal (WSM) by use of the variational wave function method. We consider a type-II WSM model with two Weyl nodes located on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-06 Lu-Ji Wang , Xing-Tai Hu , Lin Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Jin-Hua Sun , Wei-Qiang Chen

Exchange interactions with itinerant electrons are known to act as a relaxation mechanism for individual local spins. The same exchange interactions are also known to induce the so called RKKY indirect exchange interaction between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier

Magnetic impurities in real materials can mask the intrinsic spin-dependent properties of hosts. They interact indirectly through the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) mechanism, which limits the use of isolated impurity spins in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Pei-Hao Fu , James K. Freericks